GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
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| protuberance | something that is protuberant |